macrumors 604

I look through my spam folder everyday just to make sure that stuff that isn't spam isn't getting thrown out. Today it marked a friendship request as being spam and it said that the filter finds that a lot of the messages from you guys are in fact spam.

If you find a message wrongly classified as spam, you can unmark the message. Just select the message, and click the Not Spam button that appears at the top and bottom of your current view. Unmarking a message will automatically move it to your inbox.

If you find that some senders' messages are consistently being mislabeled as spam, you can prevent this by:

Adding their email addresses to your Contacts list. Gmail will deliver messages from members of your Contacts list to your inbox, unless we know with high confidence that they are spam.
Some messages sent from contacts which are very clearly spam can be sent directly to your Spam label. More importantly, in some cases messages from contacts will not be sent to Spam but will be marked with a red warning banner if the content is suspicious - for example, your friend's or contact's account has been compromised and used to send phishing messages.
Creating a filter so the messages are never sent to Spam.

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There are things, as the sender (MacRumors) can do with Google and I am confident that the admins will be looking into that as well.

macrumors 603

However,I've had the same issue with Apple discussions too,, Problem here i think is since Gmail works on "collaborative filtering", people who just no longer with to subscribe anymore just mark it as spam, in addition to remove their subscribed posts from MR. If enough people do that, Google gets the point of marking any emails from MR domain as spam, something, which has never happened to me before either.

I always received MR emails in my Inbox, but Gmail does have a filtering option, which i guess is kind of not the solution, but 50% way there.

I suppose that's all you can really do. Since there is no human doing this at Gmail, its all done by users like u and me doing the filtering

This is why Google spam is soo good. (and in this case over-kill), something Yahoo doesn't do, thus why Yahoo is high on the list as "spam culprits"

So, in short, to me MR isn't doing anything wrong, they are doing things like they always are, its Google you should be setting a filter in.

macrumors 68020

I also have this issue. I think what causes gmail to suspect The email as spam is forum notifications. Think about it: you receive the notification email, you visit the thread, and almost immediately delete the email. Their system must think its spam because of this. Maybe..,

They appear to be forging the from address to appear it is coming from @macrumors.com which is easy. However, somehow the SPF records are allowing 173.249.151.191 as a designated sender for @macrumors.com making it look like you did indeed sent the message when obviously you did not.

For some reason it has "+all" rather than "-all", the + sign means allow and all, well means all (so allow ALL senders). Basically the SPF record might as well just say "v=spf1 +all" for all the use putting the allowed senders does at the moment.

This is most likely why most of macrumor's emails are going to spam. You've just published a DNS record stating you want to allow anyone to send emails as @macrumors.com.

If you check the RFC for SPF here is how a SPF pass result should be interpreted:

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2.5.3. Pass
A "Pass" result means that the client is authorized to inject mail
with the given identity. The domain can now, in the sense of
reputation, be considered responsible for sending the message.
Further policy checks can now proceed with confidence in the
legitimate use of the identity.

So you can't be too hard on google for marking @macrumors.com email as spam.

macrumors god

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For some reason it has "+all" rather than "-all", the + sign means allow and all, well means all (so allow ALL senders). Basically the SPF record might as well just say "v=spf1 +all" for all the use putting the allowed senders does at the moment.

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thanks for the research. I'm making a change. Hopefully that will help.

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